2017 NHL Draft Final Consensus Rankings

Final 2017 Edition

The hockey season is completely over and all that’s left to do for the 2017 National Hockey League draft class is show up to Chicago to be selected. All the major ranking entities have nailed down their final rankings for the NHL Draft. It’s time for the final 2017 NHL Draft Consensus Rankings, averaging out the variation in the major rankings to produce a single semi-definitive ordering of prospects. Don’t forget to check out our complete guide to the 2017 NHL Draft.

Nico Hischier (Katie Whitty Photography/Flickr)

Here’s the projected consensus first round (the top 31 ranked players) according to the major rankers.

Notably, all nine European players that cracked the consensus Top 31 spent significant time this season playing professional hockey.

As you can see once you dig into the handy table below, there’s a ton of variation in the various rankings. Everybody has Patrick and Hischier as the top pairing in some order. Then most rankings have combinations of Heiskanen, Vilardi, Makar and Mittelstadt as the next four, with some variations and exceptions. At that point, it gets wacky. Everyone has the same 19 players in the first round somewhere, but there’s an incredible amount of disagreement regarding which players are the top and which ones are merely somewhere in the pack.

It has the makings of a very chaotic first night of the NHL Draft in Chicago.

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